A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by a new name to fit in better with French society.
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Richard Berry as Pierre Zakar
Claudia Cardinale as Araxi (Mayrig) Zakarian
Omar Sharif as Hagop Zakarian
Jacques Villeret as Alexandre Pagès
Zabou Breitman as Astrid Setian
Nathalie Roussel as Gayane
Diane Bellego as Carole
Jacky Nercessian as Apkar
Isabelle Sadoyan as Anna
Sylvie Joly as Georgette Sylva
Cédric Doucet as Azad age 7
Tom Ponsin as Azad age 12
Stéphane Servais as Azad age 20
Danièle Lebrun as Alexandre's mother
Ginette Garcin as Madame Crespel
Ève Ruggieri as Self
Maurice Chevit as Nazareth
Jean-Pierre Delage as Doctor Philibert
Henry Djanik as Actor in the play
André Julien as Druggist Anzani
Philippe Dehesdin as
Raoul Curet as
Jean-Gabriel Nordmann as
Pierre-Olivier Faïs as
Nicolas Vacaro as Tigrane
Christophe Combettes as
Alexis Tomassian as Adrien, Pierre Zakar's son
Jennifer Bostroem as
Jacques Ciron as
Bernard Spiegel as
Pierre Belot as
Marie Verdi as
Bernard Bireaud as
Gérard Dessalles as
Salah Teskouk as
Stéphane Slima as Actor in the play
Nicole Gueden as
Pascale Quelfennec as
Étienne Bartholomeus as
Jean-Michel Molé as
Véronique Kapoyan as
Brigitte Barry as
Dorothée Picard as
Bernard Musson as Butler
Henri Verneuil as Priest in an Armenian church (uncredited)